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Disaster at the VPL, 1988

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 The Province.The Province.

1988

Disaster at the VPL

What’s worse than dropping a library book in the bathtub? A tragic story at the Vancouver Public Library at Robson and Burrard when the new sprinkler system malfunctioned and soaked over 200,000 books and newspapers.

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